Choral services
Sung prayer has been offered in Westminster Abbey nearly every day for over a thousand years. Today, services are sung daily during term time by the world-renowned Choir of Westminster Abbey, and by visiting choirs when the Abbey Choir is in recess.
The music sung ranges from Gregorian chant dating from the first millennium to contemporary music and encompasses the remarkable richness and variety of the Anglican choral tradition.
This week's choral services
| Sunday, 24th May 2026 | |||||||||||
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| Day of Pentecost (Whit Sunday) | |||||||||||
| 10.30am | Sung Eucharist | High Altar | |||||||||
| sung by the Choir of Westminster Abbey | Palestrina Missa Dum complerentur Preacher: The Reverend Robert Latham Precentor |
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| 3.00pm | Solemn Evensong | Quire | |||||||||
| sung by the Choir of Westminster Abbey with The English Concert | Williams Responses Preacher: The Reverend Dr James Hawkey Canon in Residence |
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| Monday, 25th May 2026 | |||||||||||
| The Venerable Bede, monk at Jarrow, scholar, historian, 735 | |||||||||||
| 5.00pm | Evensong | Quire | |||||||||
| sung by the Lay Vicars of Westminster Abbey | plainsong Veni creator Spiritus |
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| Tuesday, 26th May 2026 | |||||||||||
| St Augustine, first Archbishop of Canterbury, c 604 | |||||||||||
| John Calvin, reformer, 1564 | |||||||||||
| Philip Neri, founder of the Oratorians, spiritual guide, 1595 | |||||||||||
| 5.00pm | Evensong | Quire | |||||||||
| sung by the Lay Vicars of Westminster Abbey | plainsong Veni creator Spiritus |
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| Thursday, 28th May 2026 | |||||||||||
| Lanfranc, Prior of Bec, Archbishop of Canterbury, scholar, 1089 | |||||||||||
| 5.00pm | Evensong | Quire | |||||||||
| sung by the Lay Vicars of Westminster Abbey | plainsong Veni creator Spiritus |
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| Friday, 29th May 2026 | |||||||||||
| The Restoration of the Monarchy, 1660 | |||||||||||
| 5.00pm | Evensong | Quire | |||||||||
| sung by the Lay Vicars of Westminster Abbey | plainsong Veni creator Spiritus |
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| Saturday, 30th May 2026 | |||||||||||
| Josephine Butler, social reformer, 1906 | |||||||||||
| 5.00pm | First Evensong of Trinity Sunday | Quire | |||||||||
| sung by the Lay Vicars of Westminster Abbey | plainsong Immensa et una Trinitas |
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